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The day before Veterans Day, Marines celebrate 243 years of service A group of solemn, uniformed men - young and old - walked a birthday cake down the aisle at the Cloquet VFW Saturday, in a ceremony that has been repeated again and again across the United States for more than 200 years. When the cake reached the front of the room, it was cut with a long shiny silver sword. The first piece went to the guest of honor, State Senator Tony Lourey, who addressed the veterans and loved ones gathered...
Carlton County Sheriff's Office deputy Mike Soderstrom can add "mayor" to his list of public roles. Soderstrom, who once served as a Carlton school board member, was the write-in choice for Carlton mayor in last week's general election. "I guess enough of my friends and neighbors wanted me in there, so here's goes nothing," Soderstrom said. Twenty-three voters wrote his name in. The next highest tally was 14 for Ryan Spears. Soderstrom's hesitation, with two young children and two adult children, has always been about sharing his time, he said....
The Carlton County Disabled American Veterans would like to invite everyone to Thanksgiving Dinner Thursday. Whether you come to eat or to volunteer or both, all are welcome to the free community meal from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 22 at Zion Lutheran Church, 1000 Washington Ave. in Cloquet. In addition to the sit-down meal, deliveries are available to homebound residents if they call Zion at 218-879-4647 by Monday, Nov. 19, and carry-out meals are also available. It is the second annual...
Cable access may change dramatically starting Jan. 1, as the city of Cloquet cuts the cable coordinator position from full-time to half-time. CAT-7 has been on our local cable TV system since the 1970s. It’s the only TV channel dedicated exclusively to Cloquet and the surrounding area. And while fewer people subscribe to cable TV than before, CAT-7 programs are still watched by many local residents. CAT-7 is operated by the city of Cloquet but is funded by cable subscription fees and receives n...
19. My dad catching me by the ankle as I desperately scramble up the stairs in a vain attempt to escape the well-deserved spanking I was about to endure, him fresh home from a double shift in the stock room at Northwest Paper Company, having learned in the car ride home from the mill, from my mother, about how I’d lied about spilling a gallon of paint on the living room floor while using it as a step stool to get at the piggy bank my sister had hidden behind the ceramic elf on the mantle. ...
Jay Cooke State Park to close during special hunt Dec. 1-5 During a special muzzleloader hunt to prevent overpopulation of deer and protect resources, Jay Cooke State Park will be closed Dec. 1-5 to all visitors outside of the campground, office and River Inn areas. The swinging bridge will remain accessible to visitors but they should not access any areas south of the bridge. All trails will be closed. Hunts also will take place at other Minnesota state parks and recreation areas this fall, and access to the parks will vary. Some will remain...
Thanks for your support To the editor: It’s an honor to be able to stand next to, and up for, your neighbors. I want to thank all those who supported me in the recent city council election, as well as my campaign team, my family and my fellow At-Large candidate, Dr. Les Riess. I couldn’t have earned the opportunity to serve our residents without the confidence of the people of Cloquet. Please continue to follow the activities of our local government. Show up for meetings. Speak up. Contact your representatives. Vote. City Hall belongs to you...
Four members of the Cloquet-Esko-Carlton girls swim team advanced to the Class A girls state tournament this week at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center in Minneapolis following the Section 7A meet last weekend in Duluth. Makayla Suominen, Madelynn Dostal, Hannah Sandman, and Kashmir Mercer will be competing in the girls 200 freestyle relay. The team finished third in the section meet Saturday at Duluth's Lincoln Park Middle School and qualified with a time of 1:41:51. "These girls have...
This past weekend jazz singer Bruce Henry returned to the Northland to perform again at the Carlton Room in the Oldenburg House. His three-octave range and extraordinary versatility energized the room when he was there in June, and once again he sent electricity through the assembled audience. The Carlton Room bills itself as a performance space with a nightclub atmosphere in a historic house and timeless setting. In a very short time - formally dedicated in the summer of 2017 - it has...
This story waited 74 years to be told It was probably about a year ago that Clayton Kittel and I embarked on bringing his war story to paper. I look back and ask myself: Why did I sign up to do this? I hate war. It goes against all that I love - life itself. But I didn't even give it a second thought at the time. I couldn't let his cries go unheard. He held back from telling anyone about what he experienced for so many years and recently it was all he could talk about. It was all that was on his...
Louisiana native and Magnolia Café owner Yvette Maijala doesn't mind how you pronounce her first name, but it does make her a little crazy when people hack her surname - pronounced MY-a-la (the "j" is silent). The Cajun transplant came by that very Finnish last name by falling in love with Arne Majaila, an Esko native, when the two of them were young adults working in western Washington. Now they live in rural Carlton County and have (almost) raised two kids: Anja, a college sophomore who is a c...
It was a shock to hear that Harold Haapoja, 74, passed away suddenly on Nov. 4 after a workout at a fitness center in Cloquet. His funeral was held at Nelson Funeral Care in Cloquet Saturday, Nov. 10. Harold was involved in so many musical groups and his family and friends will sorely miss him. He is survived by his brothers Wayne and Bill and their families. Sing on Harold, wherever you are! Ivona Risacher passed away recently, but I don’t have any details. Bryce Pinnow has been busy making a...
Paul Martin Robbins Paul Martin Robbins, 80, passed away Nov. 2, 2018 at Suncoast Hospice Woodside Center in Clearwater, Fla. after a year-long battle with bone cancer. Paul, also known as "Robbie," was born in Detroit, Mich. on March 13, 1938. Paul worked for 38 years at MichCon in Detroit and later at Great Lakes Gas Transmission in Cloquet, Minn. He was a military veteran who served in the U.S. Air Force 1960-1964 and, after moving to Cloquet in 1972, served two years with the Duluth Air...
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College was honored with a Silver Medallion Award for excellence in public relations, marketing, and communication in the 2018 National Council for Marketing and Public Relations District 5 Medallion Awards competition. The Silver Medallion of Excellence Award recognized the college's 2018 Wall Calendar, an annual poster-sized publication produced by the college's Public Information Department and distributed at no cost to area businesses, schools, and community...
Sara Rybak, a student in the Environmental Studies and Geographic Information Systems programs at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, won first place in the College Student Poster Competition at the 28th annual Minnesota Geographic Information Systems and Land Information Systems (GIS/LIS) Conference held in Duluth during October. Rybak, of Sturgeon Lake and a graduate of Willow River High School, entered her poster titled "Evaluating the Impacts of Environmental Factors on Eastern Larch...
As the temperature gauge drops, the issue of busing - or specifically, the distances Cloquet School District children are required to walk if they don't geographically qualify for busing - is heating up. The subject of asking children as young as age 10 or 11 to walk a mile and a half to school has been raised by parents already this fall. During Tuesday's formal Cloquet School Board meeting, it was grandmother Lynn Olson who wanted to talk buses and walking distances. Olson has lived on...
Cardinals ride defense to state semifinals BEMIDJI - It took an interception by freshman Ethan Shelton late in the fourth quarter to preserve a victory last Friday night at Chet Anderson Stadium, but the Cromwell-Wright Cardinals will be doing their banking in Minneapolis this week. A 14-7, nail-biting state quarterfinal victory over Norman County East/Ulen-Hiiterdal in 14-degree conditions sent the Cardinals (12-0) to the more climate-friendly confines of U.S. Bank Stadium Thursday, where they...
CLOQUET - The Minnesota Wilderness junior hockey team bucked a month-long trend by sweeping the Brookings Blizzard last weekend at home. Scores at Northwoods Credit Union Arena were 5-0 Friday and 5-4 Saturday in front of 1,600-plus fans both nights combined. Wilderness head coach and general manager Dave Boitz credited "solid special teams and goaltending" and "a lot of balanced scoring" for the victories. Dating back to the weekend of Oct. 5-6, the Wilderness had been splitting each two-game...
The Carlton Bulldogs girls volleyball team made its fifth appearance at the Class A State Tournament last week in St. Paul and they were hoping to do something they failed to do in the past four trips south - get a win and play on Saturday. "We had a goal to make it to Saturday and to win that elusive first-ever state tournament match and the girls did just that," said longtime head coach Barb Soukkala. In Thursday's quarterfinal versus Ada-Borup the Bulldogs started fast in the first set, jumpi...
The moon is full, pulling us like the tide. We really have no business heading over to Mille Lacs today. The Vikings just wrapped up another game and the afternoon is slipping away. It is the last full week of October, and time is tight. I run the math in my head, as I have done all day. Leave at 4:15 p.m., get to the landing by 5:45, trolling by 6 p.m. Due to special regulations, we needed to be off the water by 10 p.m., meaning, in reality, we needed to be back to the boat ramp by 9:45 p.m....
Last time we were together, we explored the formation of the unique bedrock of downtown Thomson. We traveled in the time machine of science and saw 2-billion-year-old mud compressed into shale, then cooked and deformed about 1 billion years ago, turning into slate. Now it is exposed in the St. Louis River in Jay Cooke Park and lines the community of Thomson. After that journey through time, I hopped into my Dodge Dakota, left Thomson, and traveled less than a quarter of a mile before I got...
Two members of the Cloquet girls varsity team were selected to be part of the 2018 Class A All-State Girls Soccer team by the Soccer Coaches Association. Senior Kendra Kelley was selected for First Team All-State, while junior Kiana Bender made the Second Team All-State. It was the second year in a row of the honor for Kelley, who is tied for third place in the state for most goals scored, with 133 goals scored in her five years on varsity. Kelley, a champion sprinter, has decided to pursue...
Over the course of her swimming career, the Lumberjack's Makayla Suominen has grown from a quiet and reserved eighth-grader who qualified for the state swim meet to a wily senior veteran who offers advice and a steady calmness to her teammates. This past week Suominen swam in her final state meet and offered up some of her best efforts to date. She finished second in the 50 freestyle and fourth in the 100, but punched out her PR in the latter and tied her PR in the former. "I won't lie to you...
